Introduction

Scapbooks are a good way for students to explore a topic through multimedia examples. Students can also learn how to create their own multimedia scrapbooks. Explore the Internet links on this page to find examples of scapbooks and sources for images, sound clips and video files.

Keep this question in mind as you work:

Explore the resources on this page, and then use them to create your own multimedia scrapbook.

Instructions

1. Explore the Internet sites linked below. You're looking for facts, quotes, examples, images, sound clips, videos, and animations that you think are important aspects of the topic.

2. When you find something you like, check its Web page for a copyright notice. Often, students are encouraged to copy things that will only be used in the classroom. Sometimes people don't want their work copied at all. A good practice is looking for an e-mail link on the page and then using it to ask permission.

3. Copy any text you want by dragging across the words, then using the Edit - Copy command on the menubar. Paste what you highlighted into a basic text editor, word processor, desktop publishing program or multimedia program.

4. Save images you like by downloading them. Paste the images you've downloaded into a multimedia, paint or desktop publishing program (like HyperStudio, Clarisworks, or PageMaker) or use one of the graphics viewers listed as Tools on this page to display your collection of images.

5. Be prepared to cut anything that copyright owners tell you they don't want you to have.

6. Once you have collected your information, go over it carefully so that you can give clear and thoughtful reasons why you found the things you collected especially important.
   

The Internet Resources

Sample Scrapbooks

• A scrapbook on Native Americans - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapnativeakr.html

• Toad Girls Scrapbook about Frogs - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapascrapbca.html

• A scrapbook on the past and the present - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapscrapbookr.html

• A scapbook on Slavery - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapslaverymr1.html

Images

• Google image search - http://www.google.com/imghp?hl equals en&tab equals wi&ie equals UTF-8&oe equals UTF-8&q equals

• Ametican Memory Project - http://memory.loc.gov/

Audio and Video

• Alta vista video search

• Wavsource - http://www.wavsource.com/

Tools

References

Grabbing Web Images

Follow a friendly step-by-step tutorial on how to grab images from the Web.